Last Saturday, Payton Gendron opened fire in a Buffalo supermarket, killing 13 people. This senseless tragedy was the culmination of years of ‘racial radicalization’ stemming from idle time during lockdowns and school closures. (Perhaps adding to the ‘lockdown’ deaths that will never be classified as such)
Good perspectives to smooth some of the rough edges of the past week.
I give no mercy to him for his evil actions, but I do think a large chunk of the population from his parents generation to his, have been pumped so full of garbage, from the government, the media, advertisers, entertainment conglomerates and the abhorrent public school system that a return to a more moral and civil society will take much more than a trial and pontifications by so called leaders.
The fight for a civil society will take time and serious efforts by all who wish to participate in it.
Another kid with autism desperate because mainstreaming ensured continuous, increasing social isolation. At one point before this happened, Gendron's mother called the mother of his only HS friend and begged her to ask her son to call Gendron and arrange a get-together because he was so lonely. Mom still trying to get playdates for her kid.
And all everyone talks about is how great it is for the normal kids to learn compassion and empathy for their "differently-abled" classmate. And then everyone gets to HS.
And how did he pay for the equipment? Everyone pretending it was a nice hobby?
The vaxxed vs unvaxxed thing is just an indicator of susceptibility to media so far as I'm concerned. As for media - nowadays mostly non-print media - see this still very relevant piece: https://ratical.org/ratville/AoS/4Args4ElimTV.html#X
What was the effect of the redefinition of pandemic, case, lockdown, immunity, vaccine, and the rest? On what basis are these redefinitions justified by scientists and doctors and others who have used those redefinitions in place of the useful meaning of these significant terms? Talk with your doctor about the redefinition of case, for example, and you will be greeted with confusion about the PCR test. Likewise with the notion of asymptomatic spread, discuss this with your doctor and you will realize the confusions that have been promulgated have piled one upon another.
Then reflect on the real history of causes such as 'gay marriage', (gutting marriage of its core meaning), 'clump of cells' (human being), and 'undocumented immigrant' (illegal alien', and more recently the push to enforce the scheme of many genders beyond the two-sexed nature of humankind.
When significant words are gutted of their useful meaning, they become empty shells into which ideologues pour their replacement. The contradictions that pile-up lead to confusion. And that leads to many people, if not most, throwing their hands in the air in despair and resignation. The apathy that sets in leaves a wide swath of uncontested territory that the antagonists occupy in defiance of sound reason and common understanding of the fundamentals. When uncontested, that territory becomes occupied permanently. This aggression against such terms is then turned against any who question the redefinition which, as per the aggressors who attacked those very terms, claimed evolve or are subject to relativism.
If you have not noticed this pattern, but have come to feel aggrieved by the covidmaniacs who have used this well-trodden route to undermining society, or you have attempted to claim the high ground of competency in science or whatnot and yet have seen society steamrolled anyway, well, better late than never.
It would also be interesting to know if this guy was on a bunch of psychotropic meds. Most "mass shooters" over the last couple decades have been found to be on (or had been on) psychotropics. In a country where almost a quarter of the kids are on some kind of mind altering/brain changing drug for "anxiety" or "ADHD" or whatever new psychosis they come up with as an excuse to tranquilize our children, it's a wonder we don't see much more of this. Especially since the side effects of many of these "drugs" are psychosis, thoughts of murder, suicide, etc.
Ironic that you learned to appreciate individuality playing a TEAM sport (albeit one where basically one individual acts at a time, and everyone else watches them!).
May 23, 2022·edited May 23, 2022Liked by SimulationCommander
Excellent.
Only individuals are the agents of freedom and progress. Groups, including the ultimate one, Society, are almost always nothing but obstacles, and sources of regression.
The young individual is forever at risk of capture by the latter. Such is the cost of a Society based on ensuring individual freedom.
I am a bit skeptical of his stated motivation. Yes, he could very well just be a racist nut job but something does not feel right to me. His rambling ran between copy paste and completely noncoherent. Gendron has a history of making threats and planning violence well before this. I would not be surprised if he did not even give a damn about race and just wanted to kill a bunch of people in the most controversial and attention getting way he could. At least I can take comfort in a simple mathematical equation.
Scrawny white kid + life without parole + general pop + black guys with nothing better to do but work out all day + enough infamy for everyone to know who he is and what he did + prison shower = glad I am not that guy!
SimulationCommander, I would invite you to challenge yourself to compare 1. the campaign to use government to gut the social institution of marriage of its core meaning with 2. the government campaign to promote covidmania through the manipulation of terms like pandemic, vaccine, immunity, herd immunity, and so forth. While we appear to be likeminded on covidmania, you might take different lessons from such a comparison than might others such as myself. That discussion could be enlightening as we compare recent history with current times. I think we all can fall into the trap of forgetting recent history while distracted by the current goings on.
Only one thing will minimize the inevitable crazies: not 1 ex-security guard packing and shooting back, but 10 law-abiding, responsible citizens with holstered and visible side-arms. The police can't be there in time.
Edit: Just heard about Texas shooting. Sorry to sound insensitive, and I would have delayed posting. But they always go where no one will shoot back.
to add to your point about the "counter example, we recently went through the ‘hate the unvaxxed’ phase, where we saw families torn apart and relationships destroyed" in a situation where close personal contact DOES NOT result in understanding and empathy. i can think of other times in history where this same thing happened- Rwandans and Bosnians slaughtering their neighbors, Germans turning in their Jewish colleagues, Soviet and Maoist children reporting on their parents.
suddenly the bonds of community and shared history are over turned by a mass hypnosis and formerly good people feel they are made superior by taking people's jobs, liberty and even life away from them in the name of ideology.
SimulationCommander, the primacy of group identity politics is what replaced the core meaning of the social institution of marriage when so-called 'gay marriage' was imposed. This imposition was not won on the basis of evidence but rather on the basis of an ideology that rejected the two-sexed nature of humankind and the core meaning of marriage which integrates the sexes and provides for responsible procreation. Much was already underway to attack that core meaning, which has nothing to do with stoning people nor with gay idenity politics, but it was indeed attacked with such false and poorly reasoned arguments.
I hesitated to point that out because today, after about a decade after the imposition of 'gay marriage', those falsehoods are now assumed correct and self-evident when today people talk of how enlightened the imposition was and how great it exemplifies their views on current events and issues.
Now, if you are open to dissecting your comparison with 'gay marriage' I am willing to make the effort with you to discuss how the comparison is faulty at its base. It is not a resolved issue, in actuality, except to the extent that people today assume far too much about the arguments made in favour of the imposition of 'gay marriage'.
Somehow it was deemed as hateful to defend the social institution of marriage against that imposition. The gutting of words, like marriage, of useful and significant meaning so as to frame false arguments has been repeated today under covidmania to an even greater extreme. When ideas are lost, due to the loss of such words, confusion is promoted.
Likewise, arguments about children and marriage were bombarded with emotional attacks that superseded the social scientific evidence. There are many comparisons to make with the campaign to impose 'gay marriage' on society but these do not favour your almost incidental use of marriage to illustrate the concern over division through group identity politics.
If you are closed to this type of discussion, I can understand. The social pressure used then was very like the social pressure today on current discussions about covidmania. I will leave it there if you are not open to such a discussion.
Good perspectives to smooth some of the rough edges of the past week.
I give no mercy to him for his evil actions, but I do think a large chunk of the population from his parents generation to his, have been pumped so full of garbage, from the government, the media, advertisers, entertainment conglomerates and the abhorrent public school system that a return to a more moral and civil society will take much more than a trial and pontifications by so called leaders.
The fight for a civil society will take time and serious efforts by all who wish to participate in it.
Another kid with autism desperate because mainstreaming ensured continuous, increasing social isolation. At one point before this happened, Gendron's mother called the mother of his only HS friend and begged her to ask her son to call Gendron and arrange a get-together because he was so lonely. Mom still trying to get playdates for her kid.
And all everyone talks about is how great it is for the normal kids to learn compassion and empathy for their "differently-abled" classmate. And then everyone gets to HS.
And how did he pay for the equipment? Everyone pretending it was a nice hobby?
Powerful post, commander!
The vaxxed vs unvaxxed thing is just an indicator of susceptibility to media so far as I'm concerned. As for media - nowadays mostly non-print media - see this still very relevant piece: https://ratical.org/ratville/AoS/4Args4ElimTV.html#X
What was the effect of the redefinition of pandemic, case, lockdown, immunity, vaccine, and the rest? On what basis are these redefinitions justified by scientists and doctors and others who have used those redefinitions in place of the useful meaning of these significant terms? Talk with your doctor about the redefinition of case, for example, and you will be greeted with confusion about the PCR test. Likewise with the notion of asymptomatic spread, discuss this with your doctor and you will realize the confusions that have been promulgated have piled one upon another.
Then reflect on the real history of causes such as 'gay marriage', (gutting marriage of its core meaning), 'clump of cells' (human being), and 'undocumented immigrant' (illegal alien', and more recently the push to enforce the scheme of many genders beyond the two-sexed nature of humankind.
When significant words are gutted of their useful meaning, they become empty shells into which ideologues pour their replacement. The contradictions that pile-up lead to confusion. And that leads to many people, if not most, throwing their hands in the air in despair and resignation. The apathy that sets in leaves a wide swath of uncontested territory that the antagonists occupy in defiance of sound reason and common understanding of the fundamentals. When uncontested, that territory becomes occupied permanently. This aggression against such terms is then turned against any who question the redefinition which, as per the aggressors who attacked those very terms, claimed evolve or are subject to relativism.
If you have not noticed this pattern, but have come to feel aggrieved by the covidmaniacs who have used this well-trodden route to undermining society, or you have attempted to claim the high ground of competency in science or whatnot and yet have seen society steamrolled anyway, well, better late than never.
It would also be interesting to know if this guy was on a bunch of psychotropic meds. Most "mass shooters" over the last couple decades have been found to be on (or had been on) psychotropics. In a country where almost a quarter of the kids are on some kind of mind altering/brain changing drug for "anxiety" or "ADHD" or whatever new psychosis they come up with as an excuse to tranquilize our children, it's a wonder we don't see much more of this. Especially since the side effects of many of these "drugs" are psychosis, thoughts of murder, suicide, etc.
Ironic that you learned to appreciate individuality playing a TEAM sport (albeit one where basically one individual acts at a time, and everyone else watches them!).
Excellent.
Only individuals are the agents of freedom and progress. Groups, including the ultimate one, Society, are almost always nothing but obstacles, and sources of regression.
The young individual is forever at risk of capture by the latter. Such is the cost of a Society based on ensuring individual freedom.
Utopia does not exist.
I am a bit skeptical of his stated motivation. Yes, he could very well just be a racist nut job but something does not feel right to me. His rambling ran between copy paste and completely noncoherent. Gendron has a history of making threats and planning violence well before this. I would not be surprised if he did not even give a damn about race and just wanted to kill a bunch of people in the most controversial and attention getting way he could. At least I can take comfort in a simple mathematical equation.
Scrawny white kid + life without parole + general pop + black guys with nothing better to do but work out all day + enough infamy for everyone to know who he is and what he did + prison shower = glad I am not that guy!
SimulationCommander, I would invite you to challenge yourself to compare 1. the campaign to use government to gut the social institution of marriage of its core meaning with 2. the government campaign to promote covidmania through the manipulation of terms like pandemic, vaccine, immunity, herd immunity, and so forth. While we appear to be likeminded on covidmania, you might take different lessons from such a comparison than might others such as myself. That discussion could be enlightening as we compare recent history with current times. I think we all can fall into the trap of forgetting recent history while distracted by the current goings on.
Only one thing will minimize the inevitable crazies: not 1 ex-security guard packing and shooting back, but 10 law-abiding, responsible citizens with holstered and visible side-arms. The police can't be there in time.
Edit: Just heard about Texas shooting. Sorry to sound insensitive, and I would have delayed posting. But they always go where no one will shoot back.
ESG is anti-Capitalism. It will desroy wealth and kill humans.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/05/23/how-the-big-banks-fell-to-climate-panic/
Drain your 401k, and start actively managing your own Capital. This will save humanity.
to add to your point about the "counter example, we recently went through the ‘hate the unvaxxed’ phase, where we saw families torn apart and relationships destroyed" in a situation where close personal contact DOES NOT result in understanding and empathy. i can think of other times in history where this same thing happened- Rwandans and Bosnians slaughtering their neighbors, Germans turning in their Jewish colleagues, Soviet and Maoist children reporting on their parents.
suddenly the bonds of community and shared history are over turned by a mass hypnosis and formerly good people feel they are made superior by taking people's jobs, liberty and even life away from them in the name of ideology.
SimulationCommander, the primacy of group identity politics is what replaced the core meaning of the social institution of marriage when so-called 'gay marriage' was imposed. This imposition was not won on the basis of evidence but rather on the basis of an ideology that rejected the two-sexed nature of humankind and the core meaning of marriage which integrates the sexes and provides for responsible procreation. Much was already underway to attack that core meaning, which has nothing to do with stoning people nor with gay idenity politics, but it was indeed attacked with such false and poorly reasoned arguments.
I hesitated to point that out because today, after about a decade after the imposition of 'gay marriage', those falsehoods are now assumed correct and self-evident when today people talk of how enlightened the imposition was and how great it exemplifies their views on current events and issues.
Now, if you are open to dissecting your comparison with 'gay marriage' I am willing to make the effort with you to discuss how the comparison is faulty at its base. It is not a resolved issue, in actuality, except to the extent that people today assume far too much about the arguments made in favour of the imposition of 'gay marriage'.
Somehow it was deemed as hateful to defend the social institution of marriage against that imposition. The gutting of words, like marriage, of useful and significant meaning so as to frame false arguments has been repeated today under covidmania to an even greater extreme. When ideas are lost, due to the loss of such words, confusion is promoted.
Likewise, arguments about children and marriage were bombarded with emotional attacks that superseded the social scientific evidence. There are many comparisons to make with the campaign to impose 'gay marriage' on society but these do not favour your almost incidental use of marriage to illustrate the concern over division through group identity politics.
If you are closed to this type of discussion, I can understand. The social pressure used then was very like the social pressure today on current discussions about covidmania. I will leave it there if you are not open to such a discussion.
Peace.